The Foundations of Belief: Being Notes Introductory to the Study of TheologyLongmans, Green, and Company, 1895 - 356 頁 |
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accepted æsthetic Agnosticism antecedents argument argument from design artist authority beauty belief causation causes cerned chapter character Christian conclusions consider course creed criticism difficulty Divine doctrine doubt effects elements emotions empirical empiricism endeavour ethical evidence existence experience external fact feelings harmony human idealists ideals ideas important impossible inference intellectual judgments kind knowledge least less logical mankind material world matter meaning ment merely metaphysical methods mind moral natural natural selection naturalistic hypothesis necessary non-rational object observations opinion ordinary ourselves Papal Infallibility particular perception perhaps phenomena philosophic philosophy of science possess possible practical premises principle produced propositions question rational reader reality reason regard relation religion religious scheme scientific seems sense sense-perception sentiments Sexual selection solipsism speculative suppose theism theology things thought tion Transcendental Idealism transcendental idealists true truth uniformity uniformity of Nature universe whole wholly
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第 287 頁 - what we are conscious of as properties of matter, even down to its weight and resistance, are but subjective affections produced by objective agencies which are unknown and unknowable.
第 356 頁 - ... 3. No philosophy or theory of knowledge (epistemology) can be satisfactory which does not find room within it for the quite obvious but not sufficiently considered fact that, so far as empirical science can tell us anything about the matter, most of the proximate causes of belief, and all its ultimate causes, are non-rational in their character.
第 30 頁 - We survey the past, and see that its history is of blood and tears, of helpless blundering, of wild revolt, of stupid acquiescence, of empty aspirations. We sound the future, and learn that after a period, long compared with the individual life, but short indeed compared with the divisions of time open to our...
第 31 頁 - ... the energies of our system will decay, the glory of the sun will be dimmed, and the earth, tideless and inert, will no longer tolerate the race which has for a moment disturbed its solitude. Man will go down into the pit, and all his thoughts will perish. The uneasy consciousness, which in this obscure corner has for a brief space broken the contented silence of the universe, will be at rest. Matter will know itself no longer. ' Imperishable monuments' and ' immortal deeds,' death itself, and...
第 30 頁 - We sound the future, and learn that after a period, long compared with the individual life, but short indeed compared with the divisions of time open to our investigation, the energies of our system will decay, the glory of the sun will be dimmed, and the earth, tideless and inert, will no longer tolerate the race which has for a moment disturbed its solitude.
第 276 頁 - I like to think of the human race, from whatever stock its members may have sprung, in whatever age they may be born, whatever creed they may profess, together in the presence of the One Reality, engaged, not wholly in vain, in spelling out some fragments of its message. All share its being ; to none are its oracles wholly dumb.
第 7 頁 - ... (supposing such an expression to be otherwise than meaningless) the World for us, the World with which alone we are concerned, or of which alone we can have any cognisance, is that World which is revealed to us through perception, and which is the subject-matter of the Natural Sciences.
第 77 頁 - If naturalism be true, or, rather, if it be the whole truth, then is morality but a bare catalogue of utilitarian precepts ; beauty but the chance occasion of a passing pleasure ; reason but the dim passage from one set of unthinking habits to another. All that gives dignity to life, all that gives value to effort, shrinks and fades under the pitiless glare of a creed like this...
第 196 頁 - ... as possible all prejudices due to education; where each should consider it his duty critically to examine the grounds whereon rest every positive enactment and every moral precept which he has been accustomed to obey ; to dissect all the great loyalties which make social life possible, a-nd all the minor conventions which help to make it easy ; and to weigh out with scrupulous precision the exact degree of assent which in each particular case the results of this process might seem to justify....
第 296 頁 - something may also be inferred from the mere fact that we know, a fact which, like every other, has to be accounted for." And after some luminous pages, in which he presses home the fundamental inconsequence of Naturalism, in requiring us " to accept a system as rational, one of whose doctrines is that the system itself is the product of causes which have no tendency to truth...